Ideas

Ideas

My congregant was stabbed for being Jewish. What happened the next Shabbat was incredible.

A rabbi chronicles his congregation’s response — which mirrors the Jewish people’s.

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Guns.

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Hate is on the rise. But guns make Jews less safe, not more secure.

The executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence weighs in on signs of rising Jewish gun ownership.

Ideas

9/11 taught me to fear. This year, I’m choosing to hope — even when it’s hard.

A rabbi explains why his synagogue is hosting a conversation between his Jewish congregants and Muslims from the Arab world.

Why my family is giving up impulse purchases for Rosh Hashanah this year

25 years ago, he wrote the book on ‘Jew vs. Jew.’ Now Samuel Freedman is seeing new and deeper divisions.

Jon Polin: Last Shabbat in my Jerusalem synagogue, I began to see our complex world anew

Four teens on the floor of a library

How being a public school student strengthened my Jewish identity

The Zionist case for Palestinian statehood (and against fatalism)

Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics

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